[Uncle Ike]

” Yet all of that may not be enough. This may be the legislation that Democrats are willing to sacrifice their congressional majorities over. “

If they do, they will soon discover what it’s like when we REALLY take it to the streets....

[jazusamo]

This may be the legislation that Democrats are willing to sacrifice their congressional majorities over.

That may be true but they'll pay dearly for many years if they ram this through.

[Don Corleone]

Years ago there was a bromide..."LIFE" for the people that can't read.."TIME" for the people who can't think. Still applies even though LIFE is now gone the way of the passenger pigeon.

[downtownconservative]

Thought-provokoing commentary, to be sure, but the level of public disapproval for universal health care is overpowering. It’s not 52% to 48%. The dems would be killing their reelection chances for many cycles to come if they completely disregard their constituencies. They love power more than they possess adherence to any other cause.

[Brad from Tennessee]

Any Democrat who votes for this bill, risking reelection for a “noble legacy,” is double damned. Once this is enacted the number of people joining the government plan will snowball. Private insurers and employer-paid plans will wither as their pools dry up. A new influx of illegal aliens—many with chronic illnesses—will stampede across the border. The bureaucratic safeguards will be overwhelmed with massive fraud—from junkies scamming a bottle of morphine capsules to international crime syndicates milking billions from the system with elaborate schemes. I watched the above scenario happen when TennCare was enacted in Tennessee. TennCare ate through the state treasury like a crocodile as the state rolls swelled with out-of-staters and people making six-figure incomes. The fraud, waste and incompetence was too massive to control. Today we’re broke.

[paul51]

I think once the politicians are safely back in their bunkers in DC, they could very easily see their way to ignore the people and pass this POS. They did it with bailouts and cap and tax and have suffered no consequence. The question is, what will the people do? Sit and take it again? Threaten to vote them out of office? The only thing that will effectively stop these people from running the country directly into the ground would be a revolt. I for one think it's high time. I wish another few million of my fellow Americans could see it that way also.

[wafflehouse]

having finally gotten the widespread, passionate grassroots activism that they yearned for over so many years, our political and media elites are shrieking in horror and declaring it an abomination

ROFLMAO

[Iron Munro]

[neverdem]

This is really interesting. So many of the rats already voted for cap and tax in competitive districts such as the 49 rat districts that voted for McCain last year. That’s already one mark against them.

[dr_who]

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[dr_who]

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